I have spent about half of the day studying for my upcoming exam on next Friday, a bit is starting to clear up on what to know although it’s still a bit of a weird period compared to previous exams. I guess I’ll just read over the variety of diseases we have had in the [...]
I have spent about half of the day studying for my upcoming exam on next Friday, a bit is starting to clear up on what to know although it’s still a bit of a weird period compared to previous exams. I guess I’ll just read over the variety of diseases we have had in the previous exams once more to refresh them a bit in my memory again and place some focus on infectious diseases and control. Combined that should about cover what we are required to know, to confirm the expectations I will check some test exams of last years to see what was expected of people to know back then.
Playing around with Maya has also given some nice progress again, covering some simply lighning techniques and setting up an animate UFO through a canyon scene. Currently I am rendering the scene to create a video file from it, but since my system isn’t too fast that’s taking some time. Tomorrow I should have the video ready though to show off my first work, but here follows a sneak preview.
I am not completely satisfied on all aspects of the scene, but it’s the first real thing in a long time so I can’t expect it to be good, let stand perfect. As you can see though the wall of the canyon on the bottom-left looks a bit too flat, that could use some extra detailing. The sky looks a bit weird; wanted to create some sort of cloudy effect, but didn’t have any textures ready to do it with quickly nor did I have any inspiration to do it differently so I gave myself a bit of an easy way out.
The UFO could use some work as well to roughen up the edges a bit, give it more of a smooth look, although it has something like this as well. It looks like some cheap tin UFO which would be used in classical movies.
Biggest obsticals I ran across though were the things I did not really bother with in the past; lighting, cameras and animation. I do have a lot of training sets covering the lot of this so over time I will definately aim to get better in this, one day looking back at this video and being able to laugh even better at the sloppy camera work and lighting. As a first though, it makes you feel quite proud that you even managed to make the thing fly already :).
